The generic callers of direct_IO lock i_mutex before doing a write. NFS
doesn't use the generic write code, so it doesn't follow this
convention. This is now a problem because the interface introduced for
swap-over-NFS calls direct_IO for a write without holding i_mutex, but
other implementations of direct_IO will expect to have it locked.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osan...@osandov.com>
---
 fs/nfs/direct.c | 12 +++++-------
 fs/nfs/file.c   |  8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index 10bf072..9402b96 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -906,17 +906,15 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct 
iov_iter *iter,
        if (!count)
                goto out;
 
-       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
        result = nfs_sync_mapping(mapping);
        if (result)
-               goto out_unlock;
+               goto out;
 
        if (mapping->nrpages) {
                result = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
                                        pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
                if (result)
-                       goto out_unlock;
+                       goto out;
        }
 
        task_io_account_write(count);
@@ -924,7 +922,7 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct 
iov_iter *iter,
        result = -ENOMEM;
        dreq = nfs_direct_req_alloc();
        if (!dreq)
-               goto out_unlock;
+               goto out;
 
        dreq->inode = inode;
        dreq->bytes_left = count;
@@ -960,12 +958,12 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct 
iov_iter *iter,
                }
        }
        nfs_direct_req_release(dreq);
+
+       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
        return result;
 
 out_release:
        nfs_direct_req_release(dreq);
-out_unlock:
-       mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 out:
        return result;
 }
diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index 2ab6f00..8b80276 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -675,8 +675,12 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter 
*from)
        if (result)
                return result;
 
-       if (file->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
-               return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, from, pos);
+       if (file->f_flags & O_DIRECT) {
+               mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+               result = nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, from, pos);
+               mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+               return result;
+       }
 
        dprintk("NFS: write(%pD2, %zu@%Ld)\n",
                file, count, (long long) pos);
-- 
2.1.3

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